Strathfield: Kunlang Li charged after allegedly impersonating Chinese Police, possessing firearms
It wasn’t just the typo on the Mercedes bonnet that caught the attention of police in Sydney’s inner west, where they arrested a young man who allegedly impersonated a foreign policeman and had firearms in his luxury car.
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A young man who allegedly impersonated a foreign police officer faces a string of serious charges including firearm offences and producing false consulate and disability documents.
Kunlang Li, 20, faced Burwood Court on Tuesday, four days after Traffic and Highway Patrol officers arrested him at Everton Rd in Strathfield after they spotted a black Mercedes-Benz S-Class which had Chinese Poilce (sic) and Chinese characters displayed on the bonnet.
Police also noticed a Chinese police badge on its side.
Police allege Li, of Baulkham Hills, showed them identification documents and a fake disability pass before they searched the vehicle and seized ammunition.
Two firearms were subsequently seized at a Baulkham Hills home.
Police allege in court documents Li impersonated an emergency service official “displaying police insignia deceiving or misleading members of the public’’ for an hour on the afternoon of July 18.
He allegedly used a fake document that pretended the vehicle was owned for consulate duties.
Li also allegedly had a false disability pass.
He was charged with using and displaying emergency services organisation insignia, driving a motor vehicle with unlawful police insignia, using a false document to influence exercise of public duty, two counts of a holder of Category A or B licence not having approved storage, providing information known to be false or misleading, possessing unauthorised a prohibited firearm and not displaying P-plates.
Li’s firearms licence was suspended and he was granted conditional bail to appear at Burwood Court.
He required an interpreter at court where Magistrate Jeff Tunks asked him to enter a plea before beginning to read out the long list of charges.
Following a long pause when asked how he would plead to the charge of driving a motor vehicle with unlawful police insignia, Li’s interpreter told the court he required more time to seek legal advice.
Mr Tunks then adjourned the case to August 11 and his bail was continued.
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